Annal:1980 National Book Award for First Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the National Book Award in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- –first–
- National Book Award
- 1981–>
- 1980 NBA–1st Novel winner
- 1980 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- Score: 16.3
An inventive, hypnotic novel about frienship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, “birdness.” Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale—one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.
